The DeadEndRoad Show

As promised here's a little Spring 2024 movie and tv roundup. Basically everything Bill watched while he couldn't record for three months. Consider this our Beautiful Cinema catch up episode. We discuss Baby Reindeer, Fallout, Godzilla Minus One, and Civil War.Have thoughts about any of these that you need to get off your chest? Think we said something really stupid? Send us an email: podcast@deadendroad.media(00:00) - Intro (00:41) - Mountains of Madness: Kicking Adobe To The Curb (16:05) - Digital Hoarding & Internet Impermanence. (29:57) - Shelved: Goodreads Competitor & Odd Review (54:47) - Beautifl Cinema: Everything that Was Relevent Spring 2024 (01:08:09) - Fallout TV Show (01:13:16) - Godzilla Minus One (01:24:01) - Civil War (01:39:28) - Outro Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work – https://deadendroad.media/#/portal/signupBookshop.org  – https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

Sometimes the madness really hits. This episode's Mountains of Madness explores what it's like to be a digital hoarder when it feels like the infrastructure of the internet is crumbling a bit more each day. Also, Adobe's awful practices have led creatives (and the federal government) to take action, even if Adobe makes it as difficult as possible.Later, Shelved brings us a host of book-related discussions, including books (and ebooks) supposedly being terrible for the environment, a review of a strange book Bill wrote, and a Goodreads alternative that shows promise.Join us next time for a Spring 2024 movie roundup discussion.(00:00) - Intro (00:41) - Mountains of Madness: Kicking Adobe To The Curb (16:05) - Digital Hoarding & Internet Impermanence. (29:57) - Shelved: Goodreads Competitor & Odd Review (54:29) - Outro (01:03:02) - Beautifl Cinema: Everything that Was Relevent Spring 2024 (01:16:24) - Fallout TV Show (01:21:31) - Godzilla Minus One (01:32:16) - Civil War (01:47:43) - Outro Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work – https://deadendroad.media/#/portal/signupBookshop.org  – https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

It's the first episode of Season 4. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing.Feel like the end of days for anyone else? No? Just us? Well, anyway that's got us feeling a little nostalgic for simpler times. Like 2016. Bill found an old phone that's now a time-capsule. Or it was, until he wiped it clean. Later, the current media landscape has us actually miss paying out the ass for cable. Strange times.Then we try to figure out just what the hell is going on with this new Say Anything album. Check out our episode sorting through all of Max Bemis's struggles and the fan response to them from last year.Ian's brought home an unconventional pet. Will it be more than he bargained for, despite it being a bargain?We finish up with a discussion of Late Night With The Devil, an inventive take on a possession movie that gets in its own way.(00:00) - Intro/Old Phone Nostalgia (14:48) - Missing Cable/The Bleak Modern Media Landscape (28:28) - What the hell is this new Say Anything album? (49:58) - Fey Infestation/Ian's Adventures (01:04:29) - Beautiful Cinema: Late Night With The Devil (01:20:46) - Outro Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work – https://deadendroad.media/#/portal/signupBookshop.org  – https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

The DeadEndRoad Show celebrates 100 episodes the only way we know how: by getting really confused and then really sad.We've brought back Dating is Dead, and we already wish we didn't. We found the new way to post personal ads online, and calling them unhinged would be an understatement. Where does one find clip art of a uterus in the first place?Later in Shelved, Bill solves a personal publishing mystery. The culprit behind a bootlegging operation is unmasked. You get three guesses who you think it is, but the first two don't count. We also go over This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, our latest Book Club selection, a possession story that tries to tackle grief from a different angle.Beautiful Cinema has us discuss The Zone of Interest, a bleak but incredibly powerful film that defies any comparison. Bill has also been watching a bunch of movies and has a brief rundown on those too.(00:00) - Intro (03:42) - Dead Letters (10:36) - Dating is Dead: Reddit Edition (01:10:17) - Shelved: Bootlegging Edition (01:25:13) - Book Club: This Thing Between Us (01:39:43) - Beautiful Cinema: Zone of Interest, Dune, Inland Empire, LOTR (02:09:54) - Outro Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work – https://deadendroad.media/#/portal/signupBookshop.org  – https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

It's episode 99, which we have decided is the arbitrary penultimate episode of the season. What does that mean? Not much, it turns out. Ian really needed to explain how Love is Blind works though.Our big story is an update and conclusion to last episode's Hugo Awards fiasco. We have answers, and they're not pleasant. Main source for this section comes from here.Then we decided on our next pick for our Book Club. For next month we'll be reading This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno if you would like to read along for our discussion in episode 100.Later we have very important updates on the keyboard foam situation, progress on the next Moogle episode (out next week), and the final (hopefully) installment of Artificial Insanity as the insertion of AI into every facet of life is getting too depressing to talk about to be entertaining.We wrap up with our plans for episode 100. It should be a wild one. Send in your suggestions to podcast@deadendroad.media(00:00) - Intro/Explain Love Is Blind Like I'm Five Years Old (13:22) - Shelved: Hugo Awards Update (39:53) - Book Club Pick Discussion (44:53) - Mountains of Madness: Foam Update (51:45) - Did It All For The Moogle Tease (56:13) - Artificial Insanity: Giving Up Edition (01:02:59) - Fun with Analytics (02:46:33) - Outro/Episode 100 Plans Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work: https://deadendroad.media/#/portal/signupWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

We've got some more publishing industry drama on deck this week, where we dare to ask the question: what the hell happened at the Hugo Awards? TL;DR: stop asking questions it's all fine, and if it wasn't fine, yes it was. Suspicious votes, censorship, good old xenophobia, this story has it all.In Mountains of Madness, Bill flew too close to the keyboard sun and his wings of PE foam melted before he could reach perfection. He has truly lost it. Do not get into keyboards, there is no going back.Later in Artificial Insanity, there's finally some good AI news. There's now a way to poison the AI algorithms when they try to steal your art. Fight back against the robots and the tech bros stealing our creative labor with Nightshade: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html and block AI crawlers on your websites: https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/ Worst Beats In The World brings us a report of this year's Grammy Awards, where the tributes to the "old guard" of the industry might have been overshadowed by some ill-timed circumstances. Also, our boy is Jimmy Fallon Big. You heard it hear first, The DeadEndRoad Show is the gateway to late night.(00:00) - Intro (13:39) - Shelved: Hugo Controversy Edition (36:00) - Mountains of Madness: Keyboard Edition (48:30) - Artificial Insanity: Rebel Edition (56:08) - Worst Beats In The World: Grammy/Fallon Edition (01:15) - Outro: UMG/TikTok Edition Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

New year, new reasons to realize the internet was a mistake.In Dead Letters, this dude keeps emailing me his book. So I decided to finally take Levar Burton's advice. I took a look.Mountains of Madness has us discuss the doomed virtual reality dreams of Facebook/Meta, pivoting nicely into Artificial Insanity, which has perhaps our most disturbing story ever. It's an unfortunately high bar to clear. True crime TikTok and YouTube channels are using the likenesses of victims actual, real crimes to narrate their own tragedies. Yes, it is insane. Yes, it somehow gets worse.Later we talk about the possibility of the NFL being rigged. And no, before you ask, it's not just because my team lost. Though it doesn't help. Look we have receipts, okay.(00:00) - Intro (02:23) - Dead Letters (12:12) - Mountains of Madness: Tech Apocalypse Edition (48:32) - An unceremonious announcement (52:37) - Artificial Insanity: Man-made Horrors Beyond Our Comprehension Edition (01:15:20) - Worst Beats tease (01:18:58) - Sports Conspiracy: The NFL Is Rigged Edition (01:33:31) - Outro Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

This is the back half of our final recording session of the year, which is now our final episode of 2023.We discuss David Fincher's The Killer, Oppenheimer, and Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind in that order.Apologies for the weird breathy audio in certain parts. The first half edit didn't have it, so I blame an Adobe Audition update.Socials: Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

We've got a publishing industry-focused episode this week, as we take a look at the YA author who tanked their career over Goodreads sock-puppet accounts and attempted to cover for it in the goofiest manner possible.But before that, can anyone help explain this strange email? It's the weirdest Dead Letters yet.Then we cover the Internet Archive's ongoing fight against the large publishers over the rights of digital books and the digitization of books.This episode needed to be split in two, so join us next week as we talk about The Killer, Oppenheimer, and Leave the World Behind.Socials: Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroadWebsite  – https://deadendroad.media ★ Support this podcast ★

We are in fact alive and back with another helping of watching the internet crumble all around us. Ian's down in the dumps and I don't think this week's topics will help him out much.Our main story concerns the tragic passing of hockey player Adam Johnson, who lost his life after a freak on-ice accident. We talk about the bizarre circumstances of the footage of the incident, wondering why it spread in this fashion, and the outright insane conspiracies the worst people on the internet concocted, using a young man's death for their own vile purposes. Content warning for violent death and blood. Please check the timestamps provided.Later we get into some lighter fair, bringing back No Fucking Thanks, our segment devoted to mocking the latest in crypto nonsense. This time it's all about locked usb keys and laser eyes. Then Bill takes his own family's usage of AI to task in Artificial Insanity.Did It All For the Moogle brings us a discussion of the 2015 anime Plastic Memories, a show that is a times quite lovely and nuanced, empathetic and sincere, and at others unfocused and run-of-the-mill.We round out with Ian's firm denouncement of Taylor Swift, once and for all as well as some brief thoughts on Resident Evil 4 Remake. These are wholly unrelated. Which one contains the bigger monster?Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – podcast@deadendroad.mediaSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad  ★ Support this podcast ★

You've heard of the classic "red flags" for dudes: the Pulp Fiction dorm room poster, liking Fight Club a little too much, an unopened copy of Infinite Jest on the nightstand. But what about anime red flags? Is something as hyper-specific as Ergo Proxy really a red flag? We discuss in this week's Did It All For the Moogle.Later, the bulk of this episode has us discuss our latest book club pick. That's right, we finally got around to finishing RF Kuang's Yellowface, and we're glad we did. We have a lot to say about this portrayal of the publishing industry and its indictment on racism, classicism, and plagiarism within. Bill gets personal weaving in his own experiences as a publishing professional and writer.We wrap with this week's Horror Harvest: Inferno from Dario Argento, the follow up to Suspiria. At times brilliant, more often than not silly, it's an intriguing giallo horror film.Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad  ★ Support this podcast ★

We’ve got a particularly mad Mountains of Madness for you this week, as we talk about a brave landlord protecting his tenants from turning into zombies from that scary emergency alert that came and went. Then we get into why Google search is so awful now, straight from Google’s mouth. Luv 2 watch the internet crumble all around us. In Artificial Insanity, our good friends from Replika AI fed into a UK man’s delusions about killing the Queen. He had a Bane mask and thought he was a Sith lord, it’s a whole thing. And finally for our Horror Harvest we discuss this year’s Evil Dead Rise. Does this entry do enough to shake up the Evil Dead formula? Or does it play it safe in more ways than one. We were pretty split on this. Timestamps:Intro 0:00-3:31Mountains of Madness: 5g Edition 3:32-1946Artificial Insanity: Regicide Edition 19:47-32:13Evil Dead Rise 32:14-1:05:21Horror Harvest Picks 1:05:22-1:09:58Outro 1:09:59 Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

It’s spooky season, and that means our Horror Harvest is back again to bring you the scares and movie takes you’ve come to know. Which are worse for your health? This time we’ve got Evil Dead (2013), and it’s hard not to compare it to the original The Evil Dead, especially if you watch them back to back. Later we have a Dead Letter that makes Bill question everything he’s ever done in his life, some Dating is Dead picks that make him spiral further, and some Worst Beats in the World that make him want to give up entirely. And we round out the show with a discussion of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update, and cyberpunk as a genre and where the three meet, diverge, and perhaps don’t mesh as well as they are supposed to. Timestamps:Intro/Robotripping 0:00-4:50Evil Dead (2013) 4:51-31:39Ian’s Recent Horror Rundown 32:00-38:13Dead Letters: Conspiracy Edition 38:14-45:31Dating is Dead: Wasteland Edition 45:32-53:16Worst Beats in the World: Viral Edition 53:17-1:07:47Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Cyberpunk2077, Cyberpunk the genre 1:07:48-1:27:56Outro 1:27:57-1:30:19 Use our Bookshop link and support indie bookstores:https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroad Socials:Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/deadendroad.bsky.socialFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

We’ve got some bookish stories for you in this one. First up, what the hell is going on with these scammy ebook apps on the Google Play Store? Our SEO/AI-driven hellscape continues unabated. Then we discuss the Seattle Kraken BookTok incident. When fandom becomes harassment in an arena of overlapping niche interests. TimestampsBootleg eBooks 0:00-7:06Kraken BookTok 7:07-26:18Outro 26:19-28:25Use our Bookshop link and support indie bookstores:https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroad Socials:Twitter – https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad​Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) circulated a list of songs to all of its radio stations that were suggested to not be broadcast. Some of the picks make sense, others absolutely do not. We go through the list, a time capsule of the thought process following a national tragedy whose consequences are still being felt. Alien Ant Farm is also here. Timestamps:Pickleball Purgatory 0:00-6:50Pixel Fold impressions 6:51-16:58JFK Cult & Tiny Teflon 16:59-27:509/11 Music 27:51-46-40Covers & Spongebob AI 46:41-1:02:26Outro 1:02:27-1:03:48 Check out the Pixel Foldhttps://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixel-Fold-Smartphone-Telephoto/dp/B0C34DL6Z7?sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&_encoding=UTF8&tag=deadendroad-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=a849626a4c0c29e9a8930c1873e72042&camp=1789&creative=9325 Twitter – https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad​Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroadBookshop – https://bookshop.org/shop/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

In our first Book Club episode we discuss Paul Tremblay’s The Pallbearers Club, the pseudo-memoir novel filled with New England dread, medical anxiety, vampire orbs, and 80s punk. What did we think of the unique formatting and hyper-focused interiority of the narration? Give it a listen to find out. Check out The Pallbearers Club at an indie bookshop near you:https://bookshop.org/a/96206/9780063069909 Socials:Twitter – https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad​Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

Here with a solo pod, because I have some stuff I want to talk about. Like the new Ari Aster movie, Beau is Afraid, and how it’s a 3 hour long nightmare for the paranoid among us. Specifically me. Later I’ve got an anime check in, as a bout of insomnia created the perfect conditions to check out a couple newer shows in Oshi no Ko and fittingly, Insomniacs After School. I round out with some assorted JRPG updates and musings. Time Stamps:Intro 0:00-1:37Beau is Afraid 1:38-9:05Camera Installation 9:06-12:32Call of the Night Callback 12:33-17:14Oshi no Ko/Insomniacs 17:15-24:19Persona 3 Reload Voice Acting 24:20- 28:00FFXIV Fanfest 28:01-35:10JRPG Woes 35:11-38:40Outro 38:41-40:27 ★ Support this podcast ★

We’ve got a packed show for you this week. In Mountains of Madness we talk about Twitter clones and where we’re all supposed to go now that our 20s are over. We can’t keep making accounts forever. In Worst Beats in the World we discover the song of the summer. And in the latter half of the show we’ve got a spoiler-free discussion of Final Fantasy XVI. We talk about the context of the game, its place in the series, its juxtaposition next to Final Fantasy XIV, and the larger discussions surrounding the game. Timestamps:Intro/Yellowcard: 0:25-8:10Instagram-Twitter: 8:11-27:50Worst Beats: 27:51-52:55FFXVI Discussion: 52:56-End Socials:Twitter – https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad​Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

Sometimes we just shouldn’t record. But once we press that shiny red button, all bets are off, for better or worse. In any event we’ve got the latest Persona 3 Reloaded updates after the game’s official unveiling. And Atlus had still had one more trick up their sleeves that the leaks couldn’t let slip. We discuss the surprise reveal. Socials:Twitter – https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad​Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★

All the rumors and leaks were true. The Persona 3 remake is real, and in this episode I give my first impressions and reactions to the news, as well as some in-depth analysis of the trailer and what we know so far about Persona 3: Reloaded. I have some concerns. But before that I do get a little personal and talk about my current creative process, what my writing routine has been, and where I am trying to take my current projects in a monologue-esque Mountains of Madness. Socials:Twitter – https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad​Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndRoadTV/​YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@deadendroadEmail – video@deadendroad.coSupport our work: Ko-Fi – https://ko-fi.com/deadendroad ★ Support this podcast ★